From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 109950 invoked by alias); 27 Aug 2019 19:48:04 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 109904 invoked by uid 89); 27 Aug 2019 19:48:03 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FROM_BLANK_NAME,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=no version=3.3.1 spammy=Home, desktop, Desktop X-HELO: p3plsmtpa11-09.prod.phx3.secureserver.net Received: from p3plsmtpa11-09.prod.phx3.secureserver.net (HELO p3plsmtpa11-09.prod.phx3.secureserver.net) (68.178.252.110) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Tue, 27 Aug 2019 19:48:02 +0000 Received: from consult.pretender ([146.115.147.4]) by :SMTPAUTH: with ESMTPSA id 2hRgiIw4xDkL52hRgiBUYA; Tue, 27 Aug 2019 12:48:00 -0700 X-Sender: inbox@kosowsky.org Received: from consult.pretender (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by consult.pretender (Postfix) with ESMTP id 359DEE43D80 for ; Tue, 27 Aug 2019 15:48:00 -0400 (EDT) Received: by consult.pretender (Postfix, from userid 495) id 3103EE43D7F; Tue, 27 Aug 2019 15:48:00 -0400 (EDT) Received: from consult.pretender (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by consult.pretender (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id E2C44E43D7D for ; Tue, 27 Aug 2019 15:47:59 -0400 (EDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <23909.35055.868804.891225@consult.pretender> Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2019 20:37:00 -0000 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Home directory not accessible but really there... From: "" X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2019-08/txt/msg00342.txt.bz2 In summary: 1. Home directory is not accessible via: 'cd ' or 'cd ~' (it takes me to /tmp) and 'ls -al /home' shows my home directory as having corrupted permissions, UID and GID (all are ???) 2. Home directory is accessible and shows proper perms/UID/GID when I go there with the full path from /cygdrive/c Specifically, After installing cygwin (using --noadmin flag), rebooting, and launching a cygwin shell, I get the message: mkdir: cannot create directory '/home/myname': No such file or directory /home/myname could not be created. Setting HOME to /tmp Then, if I go to /home and type: #ls -al ls: cannot access 'myname': No such file or directory total 4 drwxrwxrwt+ 1 myname somegroup(513) 0 Aug 27 15:35 . drwx------+ 1 myname somegroup(513) 0 Aug 25 17:55 .. d?????????? ? ? ? ? ? myname And, indeed from there, I can't ls/cd into the 'myname' home directory - nor can I change the perms or uid/gid. HOWEVER, if I go manually to the home directory using the full path relative to C:, everything seems fine. #cd /cygdrive/c/Users/myname/Desktop/cygwin/home #ls -al drwxrwxrwt+ 1 myname somegroup(513) 0 Aug 27 15:35 . drwx------+ 1 myname somegroup(513) 0 Aug 25 17:55 .. drwxr-xr-x+ 1 myname somegroup(513) 0 Aug 27 14:55 myname And I can then ls/cd into the intact 'myname' home directory. Note I don't have admin permission on this machine so I used 'cygwin-setup --no-admin' to install Cygwin. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple